Introduction

The Second Edition of the North Carolina ESL Curriculum Guide was funded
under the Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public Law 106-554).

Designed to allow flexibility for instructors, to cover adult civic living
content, to leave textbook choice open, to anticipate limited classroom computer
access, and to permit teachers to start at any point in the civic living content,
the project

anticipates the use
of BEST or CASAS as assessment instruments,

uses internet resources
for the civic living content of the curriculum and gives some internet options
for the classroom but does not require computer access for students or teacher
in the classroom,

permits instructors
to use any good ESL text as a basis for guiding language instruction and
exercises,

requires that instructors
have internet access at home, at school, or at the local library, and

requires access to
a copier for classroom handouts.

This version (1) has new resources written by classroom teachers, including
both lesson adaptations and new classroom activities; (2) has reusable forms
for instructors to utilize in custom-designing activities; and (3) has a new
domain entitled The Old North State. Lesson adaptations are added at the end
of the original lesson. New activities from the classroom are also at the
end of the lesson for which they were submitted.
Forms
for Custom Activities comprises a new section. The new Domain Nine is
added in numerical order. New websites are incorporated, and adjustments indicated
by an additional year of field-testing are included.

About this site:
Alamance Community College,
NC Community College System, CORD, and the respective Boards of Directors of
these organizations accept no responsibility
for the accuracy or appropriate inclusion of materials in the curriculum projects
that comprise the contents of “The ESL Disk Library,” disseminated
through this website as “ELA: A Virtual Library of Lesson Plans.”
Most of the materials were developed by community colleges in North Carolina
under the sponsorship of ELA/CIVICS grants in the years 2000 through 2011. Individual
instructors should use their own professional judgment when using the materials.
To ask questions about the project or materials on this site, please e-mail
ela@nc-net.info